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WordPress Maintenance Plans, Run by an Engineer

Productised care plans for WordPress and WooCommerce sites. Updates, backups, security, and performance — handled by someone who actually understands the stack. 70+ sites under management, plans from $34/month.

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WordPress developer
Sites under
management
70+
Plugin updates
per month
350+
Years of WordPress
experience
14+
WooCommerce stores
managed
20+

Why a Productised Plan?

Most WordPress maintenance services fall into one of two camps. Big productised platforms — ManageWP, WP Buffs, GoWP — that run thousands of sites through automated tooling. Or freelance developers who fit maintenance around custom build work, with no real process.

wp-maintenance.pro sits in the middle. The plans are productised: clear tiers, predictable pricing, no hourly billing surprises. But every site is managed by an engineer with 14+ years of PHP and WordPress experience — not by a junior on a queue or an automated dashboard. When a plugin update breaks something, I diagnose it the same way I'd diagnose a bug in my own code.

The technical depth shows up in the blog — real incident write-ups from real client sites. PHP-FPM worker exhaustion. WooCommerce database meltdowns. Cryptominer cleanups. Every problem documented there is one I've solved. That's the work that keeps your site running, and it's not work that an automated platform can do.

Maintenance Plans

Running a WooCommerce Store?

Standard WordPress maintenance isn't enough for WooCommerce. Payment gateways, subscription renewals, Action Scheduler queues, and database performance under load all need active monitoring. I've documented a case where 83 PayPal subscriptions failed silently and a transient storm that took down a store with 1,479% MariaDB CPU. These aren't theoretical risks — they're what I deal with every week.

Specialist WooCommerce Maintenance

What Clients Say

Joe Perkins

Rootscope supports us with all our systems admin and dev-ops needs, they provide us with a fast, reliable and friendly service and form an integral part of our team.

Joe Perkins, Founder at Chaptr

Pete Heslop

Working with Rootscope has always been a pleasure. Not only are they quick to move on issues, they are attentive and are led by a genuinely caring founder.

Pete Heslop, Managing Director at Steadfast Collective

Frequently Asked Questions

It's the ongoing work that keeps a WordPress site secure, fast, and functional. That means applying WordPress core updates, plugin and theme updates, running daily backups to an off-server location, monitoring uptime, scanning for security issues, and keeping the database healthy. For WooCommerce stores, it also means monitoring payment gateways, subscription renewals, and background job queues. It's not glamorous work, but skipping it is how sites get hacked or grind to a halt.
Because maintenance done badly is worse than no maintenance at all. Clicking "Update All" without checking compatibility can break your site. Running backups to the same server as your site means they're useless when the server dies. I've cleaned up dozens of sites where someone clicked update on a Friday afternoon and spent the weekend with a broken checkout. A proper maintenance service means updates are tested, backups are verified, and someone's watching the monitoring when things go wrong.
You can, and many site owners do. But there's a difference between clicking "Update" and actually maintaining a site. Do you check the plugin changelog before updating? Do you know what to do when an update conflicts with another plugin? Do you monitor your database for bloat, or your server for resource exhaustion? If you're running a business on WordPress — especially WooCommerce — the risk of something breaking at the wrong moment usually outweighs the cost of having someone who does this professionally.
Every plan covers the essentials — WordPress core updates, plugin and theme updates, daily off-server backups, security scanning, uptime monitoring, and database performance checks. Higher tiers add a staging-first update workflow, priority emergency response, and deeper performance work. WooCommerce stores get gateway monitoring, Action Scheduler health checks, and subscription renewal verification on top of that. See the plans for what's in each tier.
Plans start from $34/month. The exact price depends on the tier — what's included scales with the complexity of your site. There are no contracts and no setup fees. You can see the full breakdown in the plans section above. If you have a larger portfolio or need something custom, get in touch and I'll put together a quote.
I run updates weekly as a baseline. Security patches get applied as soon as they're released — I don't wait for a scheduled window when there's a known vulnerability. For WooCommerce stores, I treat payment gateway and checkout-related updates as revenue-critical and test them in staging first where the plan tier includes it. You'll get a summary of what was updated and any issues I found.
I get an alert from the uptime monitoring and start investigating immediately. For downtime, that means checking the server, identifying the root cause, and getting the site back online. For a hack, I isolate the infection, clean the malware, patch the entry point, and harden the site to prevent recurrence. I've dealt with everything from cryptominer infections to full server compromises. Response time depends on your plan tier, but every plan includes incident response.
Pick the plan that fits your site from the plans section and subscribe directly. I'll reach out within 24 hours to get access details and run an initial audit of your site. If you're not sure which tier you need, or you have a larger setup that doesn't fit the standard plans, send me a message and I'll recommend the right option.

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